Mississippi Quotes

Mississippi is akin to an underdeveloped country.

— Mike Espy

Mississippi's never going to be China.

— Tate Reeves

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

— James Kavanaugh

Here's to the State of Mississippi,

— Phil Ochs

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

— Mike Leach

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

— Little Milton

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

— Trishelle Cannatella

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

— Rodney Dangerfield

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

— Kinky Friedman

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

— Barry Hannah

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

— Madison Keys

Hopefully 'Mississippi Grind' will be good in the theater.

— Ryan Fleck

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

— Omar Benson Miller

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

— Knute Nelson

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

— Phil Ochs

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When…

— Robbie Robertson

“Mississippi blood is different. It’s got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there’s strength in it, too.…

— Greg Iles

Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence,…

— Tate Reeves

We've got to replace the statues of Jefferson Davis and JZ George in the U.S. Capitol, and the people of Mississippi ought…

— Mike Espy

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went…

— Lacey Chabert

Whether in public office or right here at home, I will never stop fighting for Mississippi. From the Delta to East Mississippi…

— Mike Espy

“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried…

— Willie Morris

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought…

— Haley Barbour

New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%)…

— Richard Florida

When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in…

— Bill Ayers

“Louis said, "There ought to be a comic book about geeks." Dr. McNaughton said, "There are books about geeks." He said, "There…

— Lewis Nordan

I felt no obligation to bow to any 21st Century political correctness. What I did feel an obligation to do was to…

— Quentin Tarantino

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a…

— Salman Rushdie

Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just…

— Victor LaValle

I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing…

— Leah D. Daughtry

The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“Harris loved to read and he shared everything he read. He read to whoever happened to be in the room from whatever…

— Lewis Nordan

Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the…

— Jay Nixon

My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students…

— James Vance

. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste…

— William Faulkner

I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That…

— B. B. King

To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only…

— William Tecumseh Sherman